     Hello friends, welcome to the Roadburn Festival. This is a gathering of like minded bands and fans from around the world, joined together by a love of music. This is a celebration of tube-driven distortion and crackling electric guitars, a raising of musical consciousness and brotherly and sisterly love, a communion with THEE MIGHTY RIFF, a time and place to get high en mass and bask in the heaviness. Since 1999 we at Roadburn have emphasized the cutting edge, honored the forefathers, and worshipped the riff. The 2008 Festival is a perfect reflection of what we have always been about. Roadburn on Last FM & Myspace. Roadburn Records on Myspace. Plus, instead of a Roadburn Forum, we created a Roadburn Yahoo Group! Please subscribe here. Contact: walter The website: Article Overview Audio Webcasts More Audio Webcasts Roadburn Records Homepage  Promotional Partners  Exile PR - UK Elena Armstrong. Exile On Mainstream Andreas Kohl. |
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 Monday, April 21st: Sunday night's fullmoon brought the Roadburn Festival 2008 to a close, a fitting omen for the weekend, given the amount of uncertainty swirling around the lineup until the last minute. Putting the lineup together was especially difficult this year, with several huge cancellations that had to be filled. We were all feeling some nervous energy on Thursday before the show got started, but when Capricorns went on and played a great set despite having two brand new band members, we all felt a big sigh of relief that it would turn out to be a great weekend -- and it was. We want to thank everyone involved -- fans, bands, 013 employees, [guest] dj's, and everyone involved. It was incredible to see how the bands all responded to each other, one great performance spurred on another, with each successive band increasing the energy. The snowball effect kept going from early Thursday right through Saturday night, culminating in the incredible Acid Mother's Guru set. Sunday was brand new ground for Roadburn, with David Tibet curating the main stage and bringing a lot of new sounds to the festival. Baby Dee held the main stage totally enraptured during her performance and Current 93 played a majestic, enthralling set. Meanwhile, next door the Roadburn Afterburner was buzzing away with the kind of energy that made it seem like Friday night all over again. One of the special things about Roadburn that we really noticed this year was the amount of time the bands spent hanging out in the crowd and watching other bands. It really felt like a comfortable, familiar scene even though there were bands and fans from all over the world there. The warm atmosphere led to many great exchanges of energy and inspiration, including moments when members of the younger bands met their heroes and used that excitement [along with the great crowd energy] to play some of their best shows ever. Again, as for the past 4 years, the 013 venue itself was one of the big stars. If you want to see [and hear!] great rock and roll, there aren't many better places to do it in the entire world. It's easy to enjoy a show when you have plenty of access to food, drink and facilities and the sound quality is excellent. Please READ ON for more details... |
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THE GLASSPACK will be headlining the 2008 SOLD OUT Roadburn Festival Afterburner in the Green Room & Bat Cave, alongside, RAMESSES, REPOMEN, DZJENGHIS KHAN, BEEHOOVER & GRAVEYARD [Doors 15.00hrs - Start 16.00hrs]. Please READ ON, for more more details... |
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